Membership Site Development in WordPress

Posted by:wwws onJanuary 6, 2017

Membership site is actually interesting topic specially when we develop with WordPress. It is a special way to provide premium content to your customers.

When you find out, there’s rarely available method that provide a full access over the portion of your content that users can access. The Concept of membership site on WordPress is best option provided to you for your business building website that have the proper content to share with your customer on basis of membership.

#1- What is Membership Program?

A membership program is a portion of your business website to particulate members only. If any one want to get the access of this portion allow only when they pay for join the community. That way you earn the money and increase your community.

Here is the Example of WordPress membership site that we build for client-www.worldmuaythaisummit.com

#2- To Overview

Creating a membership site on WordPress is not as easy like other websites to create with just few modification of theme and ready.

most important thing while building this type of site is finding a proper plugins that handle all particular tasks and then creating WordPress content for membership plan.

“which membership plugins is useful and how to configure them as per requirement” is main thing you should know while building membership website.

#3- Points to mark while creating the membership website

a) User profile pages, login forms & front-end registration

In WordPress membership site there is need a front-end registration form that Similar to any Social Media website. The same thing do for the ‘user profile’ page and login page.

b) Extra user roles

WordPress provide only one user role that can assign to members that is subscriber. If any website having more membership levels or having multiple membership programs on same site than what to do?

Simply, The only way to create extra user roles.

c) Set contain what to see on the site by who

WordPress provides only basic functionality for password protection and private content status. That is not enough for creating membership WordPress site. You need to explore the advance content structure to add better functionality for setting which content is locked and what to display everyone.

d) Additional control over the menus

Many of the membership sites publish a lot of content and categorize in it with different ways. That means you need to create the form which contains additional menu options. similar to allow you to show certain menu options to particular Community users and not show to others.

#4- Create a Membership Site with WordPress

There are many plugins available in WordPress that helps to build the membership site. Here we suggest some of that name you can just install and try it.

  1. WishList Member
  2. MemberPress

  3. Restrict Content Pro

  4. WooCommerce Memberships

  5. S2Member

Not need to mention, it having all functionality to meet your all requirements. Finding to offer different membership options? Want it to attach with your shopping cart? Wish to offer multi-level access to your members? WishList Member covered all this things.

#5- Membership site Functionality

  • Create a membership site on WordPress that makes it possible to deliver/conduct an online course. This is the most popular form of a membership site. It gives the site owner the possibility to deliver premium/exclusive content only to those who have joined the site, and not make it available to the general public.
  • There’s going to be one main type of membership users simply called members. However, the structure of the site needs to allow us to add other membership levels in the future if needed.
  • Members will be able to register through a front-end page, without the need to go into the wp-admin.
  • Members will also be able to edit their profiles and log in from the front-end.
  • Logging in will be done mainly with email.
  • Every member will need to provide basic details about themselves (e.g. first name, last name, country, email).
  • There will be exclusive content available to members only.
  • Members will see different menu items.
  • We need a possibility to customize the emails that new members get when they subscribe.
  • After logging in, the member should get redirected to the homepage of the membership area.

 If you are Interested to building membership site in WordPress we do it for you contact us on this page.Worldwideweb solution

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